Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0 / Great Plains support in Argentina: Dexterity
Development, Reporting, Integrations, Upgrade
By Mauricio Rubaja
Mιxico DF:
52-55-535-04027,
San Pablo:
55-11-3444-4949,
USA
1-866-528-0577,
1-630-961-5918
help@albaspectrum.com
Microsoft Dynamics ERP
product family consists of Microsoft Dynamics GP (former Microsoft Great Plains,
Great Plains Software eEnterprise/Dynamics/Dynamics C/S+), Microsoft Dynamics AX
(former Microsoft Axapta), Microsoft Dynamics NAV (former Microsoft Navision),
Microsoft Dynamics SL (Solomon), Microsoft Dynamics CRM (former Microsoft CRM).
In this small article we will be reviewing Microsoft Great Plains and its
Spanish version, available and used in Argentina.
- Microsoft
Dynamics GP, NAV & AX. All
three are translated to Spanish and ready to be deployed in Argentina.
Historically both Great Plains Software and Navision Software had marketing
plans in Buenos Aires back in 1990th, prior to their acquisition
by Microsoft. To consider international market Microsoft seemed to be
promoting Navision Attain / Navision on emerging markets, beginning at 2003
(when Navision made very hard time for Great Plains resellers/VARs in such
countries as Brazil, Russia, Poland, Czech Republic), then in 2004/2005
(East Europe), 2005/2006 (LATAM/Brazil) Microsoft Business Solutions /
Microsoft Dynamics subdivision of Microsoft decided to localize Microsoft
Dynamics AX Axapta for the same markets.
- Microsoft
Dynamics GP/Great Plains.
This ERP was architectured by Great Plains Software (Fargo, North Dakota) in
the earlier 1990th as one of the first graphical Accounting/MRP
packages Great Plains Dexterity programming language and development tool
was intended to isolate ERP from the specifics of computer graphical and
database platforms. As for the GPS Dynamics in Argentina it was
translated to Spanish (Dexterity string resources) for versions 5.0, 6.0 and
higher
- Great Plains
Dexterity Customizations.
Dexterity chunks were very elegant customization mechanism for earlier
versions of Great Plains Dynamics up to the point when Microsoft Great
Plains migrated and established itself as reliable Microsoft SQL Server 6.0,
7.0 and 2000 ERP application. When this happened Great Plains Dexterity
became mixed with SQL scripting and stored procedures, which made former
Dexterity database independence and transferability principle irrelevant.
- Great Plains
Accounting. You can still
find clients in LATAM who run GPA it is no more supported (support ended
in 2002) by Microsoft Business Solutions, if you need support - you should
contact VAR, such as Alba Spectrum. Who has access to legacy GPA support
database
- Ctree & Btrieve/Pervasive
SQL Legacy. The last version
of Microsoft Great Plains, which was still supporting these platforms was
Great Plains 7.5. Microsoft Business Solutions stopped Pervasive and Ctree/Faircomm
support in December 2004. We know that this voluntary step left a lot of
local clients in Argentina without the support options and lead to several
mid-size businesses scandals.
- Competition.
From the high end or functionally rich ERP applications Great Plains meets
the competition from Oracle E-Business Suite/Oracle Applications/Oracle
Financials and SAP R/3/mySAP/SAP-All-In-One. Also GP is facing the
competition from Microsoft Axapta and even partially from Microsoft
Navision. From the low end or simple functionality ERPs Microsoft
Dynamics GP is competing with SAP Business One (to be introduced in
Argentina in 2006/2007). Plus you should consider locally developed ERP
solutions
Please do not hesitate
to skype us: albaspectrum email us:
help@albaspectrum.com
Mauricio Rubaja is Great Plains consultant
at Alba Spectrum Technologies (
http://www.albaspectrum.com
http://www.greatplains.com.mx
http://www.enterlogix.com.br ) - Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains,
Navision, Axapta, MS CRM, Oracle Financials, SAP Business One and IBM Lotus
Domino Partner, serving corporate customers in the following industries:
Aerospace & Defense, Medical & Healthcare, Distribution & Logistics,
Hospitality, Banking & Finance, Wholesale & Retail, Chemicals, Oil & Gas,
Placement & Recruiting, Advertising & Publishing, Textile, Pharmaceutical,
Non-Profit, Beverages, Conglomerates, Apparels, Durables, Manufacturing and
having locations in multiple states and internationally.
We are serving LATAM: Mexico, Peru,
Brazil, Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Chili, Paraguay, Uruguay,
Argentina, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico